Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century : Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

ISBN-13: 9780415390408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 210 str.

Nile Green

Opis

This book covers Sufism in India from the 17th century to the present. In particular the author studies the city of Awrangabad and employs a combination of historical texts and anthropological fieldwork to provide a fuller understanding of Sufism and Muslim saints in South Asia. Placing the mystical traditions of Indian Islam within their cultural contexts, this book focuses on the shrines of three Sufi saints in the neglected Deccan region and their role in its political history under the Mughals, Nizams of Hyderabad and the Indian nation. Sufism's place in Persian and Urdu literature is examined, while showing developments in wider Muslim and Indian history from a distinct regional perspective.

Spis treści

1. Muslim Mystics in an Age of Empire: The Sufis of Awrangabad  2. The Poetry and Politics of Sainthood in a Mughal Successor State  3. The Sufis in the Shadow of a New Empire  4. Saints, Rebels and Revivalists  5. The Awrangabad Saints in the New India.  Conclusions